AEGRO said:
Im sick about Nintendo releasing consoles in the middle of an on going generation. They either future proof the NX, so when the Ps5 and Xbox 2(?) are announced, they wont dwarf it with their specs, or they embrace the "we dont compete directly with Sony and Microsoft" and release a console with whatever specs. |
When was the last time Nintendo done this?
The Wii U was released 6 years after the PS3/7 years after the 360. Its specs were not even uniformly better then those consoles and were the furthest thing away from "industry leading".
Nintendo have never taken a mid gen tactic before, running circles around the current generation of platforms (say all third party games are 60fps/1080p+higher graphical settings)whilst they're still relatively young maybe what Nintendo needs to get a foothold in the core market again. Seeing as most people on this forum don't believe we'll see a successor to either PS4/X1 for a while, Nintendo do not necessarily need to worry about being dwarfed by anything. Comparably the PS4 was announced 3 months after the Wii U came out...
I don't feel this is the ideal tactic but it could still work for them. Ideally they would wait til fall 2017 for the home console and present a console that feels next gen compared to PS4/X1 just as they begin their decline.
